Random rants, reviews and opinions of modern technology and it's effects on society, life.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Blackberry 8830 follow-up review

well, prior to working at my current job, i had always been either Palm or Windows smartphone user.Â blackberries were for the business elite not the geek, or so it went in my head.Â Â however, after using a blackberry for quite some time i've come to love my blackberry and loathe the palm treo or moto q or other smartphones.Â the blackberry just does the job so well.

up until the last year, blackberries were not really the nicest looking phone.Â they were big black bricks.Â however the introduction of the sleek Pearl and now the 8800 series seems to be changing this mold.Â

a while back ago, i posted a review over at techrx ( here ) and gave it a very respectful/great 9.5/10.Â

so, after using the blackberry for about 2 months, is it still a 9.5?

i would still say yes.

the battery life is still great.Â several users have taken the phone to both japan and england and have still been able to get their email and phone reception.Â

just recently i put in a nice ole 1GB microsd card and was able to send music to the blackberry via bluetooth, also you can send mp3 or wav files to it to be used as ringers.Â just go to Media > Ringtones and then hit the Menu key > Receive using Bluetooth and send them to the phone or sd card!

bluetooth works great and the speaker phone is very good.Â

finally, today i decided to use the phone as modem (PAM) / tethering to my tablet since my internet and cable went down today.Â so far works pretty decent, much better than any edge tethering i've done w/tmobile and of course dialup.Â